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The Training Manager’s Guide to Accessible Elearning

By Sanjay Nasta  |  October 6, 2020  |    |  11

Inclusion and diversity are imperatives in today’s workplace. For those who create training or administer training programs, that means considering and meeting the needs of learners with disabilities.  This “Training Manager’s Guide to Accessible Elearning” provides practical steps for ensuring your online training fosters a welcoming experience for all of your learners, whether they are team members, clients, or the public.  A Guide for Creating and Buying Accessible Online Training[…]

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Filed Under: Accessibility, Course Development, Training Effectiveness Tagged With: Accessibility, accessible elearning, accessible training, corporate training, custom training, effective training, Elearning, elearning development, Government Training, online training, training effectiveness, training program

The Case for Documentation

By Kevin Gumienny  |  August 12, 2019  |    |   

Do you hate documentation? You have to create it, keep it up-to-date, use it, make sure that other people use it. And there’s always the risk that you spend more time maintaining it than you spend working on the actual project. And yet… I adore and (attempt to) follow the Chicago Manual of Style (16th edition—we’re a bit behind the times). I know it’s 1026 pages on topics like when[…]

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Filed Under: Course Development, General, Instructional Design, LD Commentary, Learning Dispatch Newsletter

3 Tips for Raising the Quality of Your Training

By Kevin Gumienny  |  December 18, 2018  |    |   

Quick Tips to Improve Training Quality Creating elearning can be both time-consuming and intense. To help make it a little easier, here are three tips that can have an outsized effect. Link objectives to content. If you use an objective-driven process (and you should), include a text reference to each objective when you write the content related to the objective’s topic. How does this help? It ensures that the screen[…]

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Filed Under: Course Development, Instructional Design, Learning Dispatch Newsletter, Training Effectiveness Tagged With: course testing, effectiveness, elearning development, style, training effectiveness, training quality

Creativity within Constraints: When Cost, Resource Scarcity, or Deadlines Make Effective Elearning Seem Out of Reach

By Kevin Gumienny  |  November 2, 2018  |    |  2

Budget limits. Deadlines. Legacy tools. They don’t have to mean sacrificing creativity, engagement, or effectiveness. An interaction catalog can help you develop effective elearning under constraints. Developing Effective Custom Training While Respecting Resource Limitations Learning development is a paradox. Study after study tells us that training matters. It changes how people do things. It affects the bottom line. Once business problems are identified, training, while not the answer to every[…]

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Filed Under: Course Development, General, Training Effectiveness Tagged With: accessible elearning, Cathy Moore, creativity within constraints, custom online training, custom training, deadline, effective training, elearning development challenges, training budget, training development, training effectiveness

Does Your Elearning Team *Always* Need an Interaction Catalog?

By Kevin Gumienny  |  November 1, 2018  |    |   

When Informal Communication Succeeds: A Tale from the Trenches An interaction catalog: one way to efficiently build great elearning How do you design successful elearning while operating within constraints like budget, time, and resources? As recently discussed on our Learning Dispatch blog, one way is to have a formal template interaction catalog, and consciously ensure that designers and developers operate only within those limits (it can be more creative than it sounds!).[…]

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Filed Under: Course Development, Instructional Design, Learning Dispatch Newsletter, Project Management Tagged With: instructional design, interaction catalog, pattern library

Microassist Elearning Examples Drawn from Texas DSHS Projects

By Vivian Cullipher  |  November 1, 2018  |    |  1

Many of our custom course projects tackle difficult, but life-saving topics. Here are summaries of elearning examples on HIV prevention and case management training. Go directly to examples: HIV/STD Program Case Management Training  |  Perinatal HIV Prevention Program Training Visual Models and the HIV/STD Program Case Management Training “As a virus, the Human Immunodeficiency Virus, or HIV, demonstrates characteristics of all viruses…” So begins the warm, female voice kicking off the first[…]

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Filed Under: Course Development, General, Project Spotlight, Training Effectiveness Tagged With: accessible elearning, custom online training, Elearning, elearning examples, online training examples, training effectiveness

Designing Elearning without Audio

By Sanjay Nasta  |  June 21, 2018  |    |   

Of course elearning needs sound! Or does it? Here are some ways to build elearning without audio. Need creative help in developing your elearning course? Contact us to learn more about our elearning development services. Creating Engaging—but Silent—Learning Courses Who doesn’t love audio narration in elearning? Yet audio can be difficult, for both the learner and the training program. Learners need to have an environment where they can play the[…]

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Filed Under: Course Development, Instructional Design, Learning Dispatch Newsletter Tagged With: audio, corporate training, custom training, elearning development, learning and development, newsletter, online training

Meeting the Needs of Diverse Learners

By Kevin Gumienny  |  June 14, 2018  |    |   

Few fields fully embrace the need to address people with disabilities—learning included. But why is meeting the needs of diverse learners important, anyway? Need to make sure you’re meeting the needs of all your learners? Contact us to talk about how your next elearning project can be developed with accessibility in mind. A Call for Raising the Bar for Meeting Learners’ Needs I recently returned from the 33rd CSUN Assistive[…]

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Filed Under: Accessibility, Course Development, Learning Dispatch Newsletter Tagged With: Accessibility, accessible elearning, accessible training, corporate training, CSUN, custom online training, custom training, elearning development, workforce training

Using Pattern Libraries for Accessible Elearning: Insights from CSUN 2018

By Kevin Gumienny  |  May 4, 2018  |    |   

Making elearning accessible is the right thing to do. It’s also often a project requirement. Senior Learning Architect Kevin Gumienny shares conference insights from CSUN ATC 2018 on how to include accessibility in your elearning development process. He’ll introduce using pattern libraries for accessible elearning development, explaining how they can make your development process more efficient.  CSUN Session Takeaways for Developing Accessible Elearning The 33rd California State University, Northridge Assistive Technology Conference[…]

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Filed Under: Accessibility, Course Development, Instructional Design Tagged With: Accessibility, accessible elearning, accessible training, CSUN, Elearning, elearning development, learning and development

Converting Classroom Training to Elearning [Audio Interview]

By Sanjay Nasta  |  April 6, 2018  |    |   

Interview with Microassist’s senior learning architect Kevin Gumienny and instructional designer Brandon Winston on what it takes to convert classroom training to elearning.   Topics covered include: What is elearning? Advantages of elearning over classroom training How to make sure you create effective elearning when converting from classroom training How long does it take to create elearning?  How much does it cost? How effective is using elearning vs instructor-led training? [Skip[…]

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